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Leonardo Rey Bing S. Cariño is an artist, interior designer, curator, theater director, choreographer, cultural worker, researcher, and educator. He is one of the prime movers of the creative industries in General Santos City, and founder of the annual Teatro Ambahanon Summer Dance Workshop (TASDW), a training ground for upstart and pre-professional dance-theater artists.

Bing graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, and established his design practice in General Santos City. He started painting at about the same time as his design practice, and had one-man shows in the region, including Exhultations (his first one man show) in Cotabato City, followed by Birth at UP Art Gallery. He was elected executive committee member of the National Committee on Visual Arts (NCVA) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in early 2000. He shifted to the performing arts and founded the famed Teatro Ambahanon (Hibiscus Prize for Excellence winner of China ASEAN Theater Week) of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges in General Santos City, where he also works as cultural development coordinator.

He found his way back to visual arts when he joined the Philippine Women’s College (PWC) of Davao Helena Benitez School of Arts and Design as chairman of PWC’s Interior Design Program. He soon joined group shows in Davao, Zamboanga, Cagayan De Oro, and General Santos, including two international exhibits Under One Sky during the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines (BIMP) International Festival of Cultures, and Selingan Seni (Artistic Neighbors), a show of Mindanao and Sabahan artists. He is among Region 12’s artists presented by the Metropolitan Museum in My City, My SM, My Art in February 2018. His most recent exhibit is Duyog, a two-man show with Anoy Catague at the Francisco Demetrio Gallery at Museo de Oro at the Xavier Ateneo in Cagayan de Oro City.

When not busy with design and painting, he curates for museums and other cultural institutions around the SoCCSKSarGen (South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General Santos) area.

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